page_title: Michal Linial
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caption_attribution_description: Michal Linial Introducing ISCB 2012 Overton Prize recipient Ziv Bar-Joseph
context_page_description: Michal Linial is a Professor of Biological Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director of The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology. She was elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2016 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.
context_section_description: Michal Linial is a Professor of Biological Chemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Director of The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology. She was elected a fellow of the  International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2016 for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics.
caption: Michal Linial speaking at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Long Beach, California in 2012
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